Comment by Thorrez

The AI is available 24 hours a day, for hours-long conversations, and will be consistently sycophantic without getting tired of it.

Is a human able to do all of those? I guess someone who has no job and can be "on-call" 24/7 to respond to messages, and is 100% dedicated to being sycophantic. Nearly impossible to find someone like that.

There are real friends. They're willing to spend hours talking. However, they'll be interested in the person's best interest, not in being sycophantic.